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Articles from Vol. 43, 2011

Angry Drummers: A Taiko Group from Naniwa, Osaka, Japan

Angry Drummers: A Taiko Group from Naniwa, Osaka, Japan. 2010. Directed by Yoshitaka Terada. In Japanese with English subtitles. 85 minutes. Colour, DVD. Produced by the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. DVD can be rented free of charge from...

Dengaku, literally "field music" or "field entertainment," figures as one of the most important genres of traditional Japanese music, that is, music developed in Japan before the Meiji period (1868-1912).1 Dengaku has played a role in ceremonies at major...

Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers: An Anthology of Welsh Music and Song

Blodeugerdd: Song of the Flowers: An Anthology of Welsh Music and Song. 2009. Smithsonian Folkways SFWCD 40552. Recorded by Jens Schroeder. Annotated and produced by Ceri Rhys Matthews. 44-page booklet with notes in Welsh and English. Welsh translation...

British Library Archival Sound Recordings URL: http://sounds.bl.ukDigitization of archive material has been on the agendas of numerous repositories in recent years. In 2010 the Heritage Lottery-funded "Tobar an Dualchais" resource (found at www.tobarandualchais.co.uk)...

The year 1973 marked the opening of the Bosphorus Bridge, the first bridge to link the European and Anatolian sides of the city of Istanbul, the only city in the world that spans two continents.1 The same year, the first Istanbul Festival took place...

Chinese Shadows: The Amazing World of Shadow Puppetry in Rural Northwest China

Chinese Shadows: The Amazing World of Shadow Puppetry in Rural Northwest China. A film by Frank Kouwenhouven and Antoinet Schimmelpenninck. 2007. Directed by Frank Kouwenhoven. Produced by CHIME. Interviews and translation by Antoinet Schimmelpenninck....

Thirty years ago, on 27 August 1981, the International Folk Music Council became the International Council for Traditional Music. The twenty-sixth conference of the IFMC, held in Seoul, was simultaneously the first of the ICTM (although no one today...

International Library of African Music (ILAM). Produced by Diane Thram and Elijah Madiba, in association with Rhodes University. 2011. URL: http://www.ru.ac.za/ilamThe International Library of African Music (ILAM) is located on the campus of Rhodes University...

Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music of the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao

CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Judeo-Caribbean Currents: Music of the Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao. 2009. Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel, 22. The Jewish Music Research Centre, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem AMTI 0901. Annotated...

It is certainly nothing new to point out that Pygmies,1 hunter-gatherers of the African equatorial rainforest, are known as a people who sing and dance-in other words, who "music"[dagger]-a lot. Their music, for the most part vocal polyphony, has been...

Music, Dance, and Behaviour in a New Form of Expressive Culture: The Romanian Manea

OverviewThe popular music landscape of Romania today is dominated by the manea.1 It appeared in the late 1960s as a form of symbolic opposition by the Romani2 communities from the slums of the big cities on the Danube to their exclusion from Romanian...

Music of the Ancestors: A Study of the Traditional Instrumental Music of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea

Music of the Ancestors: A Study of the Traditional Instrumental Music of the Iatmul of Papua New Guinea. 2009. [revised version of PhD dissertation, "The Music of the Iatmul People of the Middle Sepik River (Papua New Guinea) with Special Reference to...

Open Planet of Sound (opOs). e-learning project of the University of Basel, Switzerland. URL: http://www.opos.unibas.chOn the website Open Planet of Sound, you are welcomed by a world map with twelve dots spread over the continents. A click on a dot...

Rethinking Musical Instrument Classification: Towards a Modular Approach to the Hornbostel-Sachs System

Preliminary thoughts: The Hornbostel and Sachs classification system in the era of computers and networksIn 1914, Erich von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs created a hierarchic ordering (macrotaxonomy) of all musical instruments, even though they (and many...

Review Essay: Ethnomusicology and the Use(fulness) of the Internet in 2011

Review Essay: Ethnomusicology and the Use(fulness) of the Internet in 2011Eight years ago, Suzel Reily predicted that the Internet would not just become a major source of information, but that it would also become a primary medium of communication and...

NORTH AMERICA The Best of Mance Lipscomb. 2009. Arhoolie Records 537. Performed by Mance Lipscomb, with Frank Lipscomb and Wayne Davis. Recorded by Chris Strachwitz. Annotated by Chris Strachwitz and Adam Machado. Produced by Chris Strachwitz. 12-pp....

The Feast-Day of Tamar and Lashari. 1998. Directed by Hugo Zemp. 73 minutes. Colour, DVD. Produced by Documentary Educational Resources (http://www. der.org).Hugo Zemp's first ethnographic expeditions in Georgia took place during the summer of 1991,...

The Representation and Performance of African Music in German Popular Culture

Africa constituted a vivid part of the popular European imagination as early as the nineteenth century. Fascinated by travel accounts and adventure novels and, towards the end of the nineteenth century, by ethnographic shows and colonial exhibitions,...

IntroductionIn October 2009, the genre ca trù of the Vi?t people was listed as a part of the World's Intangible Heritage in need of urgent safeguarding due to its uniqueness, its importance to the cultural identity of its bearers, and its alarming degree...

Sa kékéénuk ikenááy pwún namanampwopwun áách feyiyééch.We sing your name today for it is Christianitythat brings our blessing.(excerpt from a Chuukese Protestant hymn)One way to theorize a history of native articulations is to historicize the processes...